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On Tuesday 11 October, Pope Francis presided over a special evening Mass to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Francis received members of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission (MERCIC) in a private audience.

The first lecture of the 2022-2023 cycle of the Tillard Chair on the theme “Christian Unity and Reconciliation” will be held on Friday 7 October .

An international committee jointly sponsored by the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches met in Rome.

As participants in the Economy of Francesco share their views in a spirit of openness, Adrian Pust, a young Evangelical Church representative from Switzerland, describes the importance of the value of ecumenism, without which he says there can be no just and fair global economic structure.

In a long reflection, the cardinal relaunches the theme of a "fusion" between local realities, such as the Assyrians and the Chaldeans. The same applies to the Syro-Catholics and the Syro-Orthodox.

The Asian Ecumenical Institute (AEI), the annual ecumenical leadership development training programme of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), will be held from 19 September to 14 October 2022.

The Holy Father met privately with some religious leaders and representatives of the Churches

Estonian Lutheran Archbishop Urmas Viilma, a participant at the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, upholds Pope Francis’ call for dialogue “with everyone” to end the war in Ukraine and in other parts of the world for the good of humanity.

On 8 September 2022, the ecumenical Community of the Crossing was inaugurated during an evensong service at the Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York.

Pope Francis offers his encouragement to the "Community at the Crossing", an ecumenical project for young people sponsored by the Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine in the US city of New York.

The participants of the ecumenical summer course of the “Centro Melantone” in Rome

Some 190 Catholics attended the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches

(LWI) - Every year, from 1 September to 4 October, Lutherans join many Christians all over the world to observe the Season of Creation. This year its theme is “Listen to the Voice of Creation”. An ecumenical opening event takes place online on 1 September.

Season of Creation is a time for engaging with uncomfortable questions

The first thematic plenary focused on Care for Creation

In a message to the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Pope Francis calls on all Christians to work for unity and reconciliation among themselves, in order to bring God’s reconciliation to a world still plagued by division and conflict.

After being postponed for two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the highest governing body of the World Council of Churches will convene next week in Germany for nine days under the theme "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity”.

(LWI) – A project managed by hundreds of volunteers in the Malagasy Lutheran Church (MLC) is proving how talent and expertise from local inhabitants, congregations and public authorities can promote citizen participation and inclusion in community development.

The Joint Working Group (JWG) between the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches (WCC) has published its Tenth Report 2014–2022, entitled Walking, Praying, and Working Together: An Ecumenical Pilgrimage.

Pope Francis sent condolences to His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, for the victims of the fire at the Coptic church of Abu Sefein in Giza, Egypt

The Lambeth Conference was held at Canterbury from 26 July‒8 August.

A delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) expresses its solidarity with Ukraine during a visit amid the ongoing war, and meets with church and state institutions.

Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, who succeeds Metropolitan Hilarion, visits the Vatican for the first time, after his appointment in June.

The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) will observe the Asia Sunday–2022 on the theme ‘Christ’s Love Reconciles and Unites’.

The most important event of the Anglican Communion gathering bishops from across the world every ten years runs from 26 July to 8 August on the theme "God’s Church for God’s World"

The month-long ecumenical course Asian Ecumenical Institute (AEI), designed to train prospective young Asian ecumenists and church leaders, will be held from 19 September to 14 October 2022 on the Payap University campus in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 

From 8-14 July, the second plenary session of the seventh phase of the International Catholic Pentecostal Dialogue, hosted by the Catholic Church, was held in Rome.

From July 10 to 12, on the invitation of the Taizé Community, a meeting brought together representatives of several national youth ministry services and Catholic movements involved in ecumenism

From 6 to 12 July 2022 the 38th International and Interconfessional Meeting of Consecrated Men and Women was held in St. Niklausen, Switzerland.